Continuing the theme of love poems, on this cold morning I slipped into the box this bit of warmth from E. Ethelbert Miller. It was one of the Poem-a-Day selections for Valentine’s Day this year, and I appreciate that it is actually a poem of friendship, which is always a form of love.
Here’s what Miller says of the poem: “The poem focuses on the commitment required to maintain a friendship over decades. It’s about aging and acknowledging another person’s beauty and how it changes, but is forever eternal. What holds the poem together is the ritual of sharing food and the understanding of how friendship can cross the border into love.”
“You break a cookie in half like bread
and this sharing is what we both now need.”
